12 Bar Blues/Alone & Blue

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

 5  -6   -7     7    -5   -6-7 7    
Nothing seems center--no appetite--

 5     -6   -7  7
can't sleep at night.

-5 -6   -7   7     
No hope in sight.  

 6   -6  5  6 6 -6  6-6    -6   5
What did I do to be alone and blue?

 5    -6     -7    7    
Since you've been gone, 

-5   -6  -7   7    5 -6   -7   7
life has no dawn.  I need you so.

-5  -6  -7   7   
Why did you go?  

  6  -6  5 6  6  6  -6 6   8  -8
What did I do to be alone and blue.

  7   -6    7 -6    
Since your goodbye, 

 7     -6   6   5  6
life's all out of key.

  7  -6    7  -6   
Bluebirds fly by--

  7    7   -8    8  8    8  8 -8
they won't sing for me, Oh, Lordy!

 5  -6   -7   7    -5    -6     -7 7    
You took the glow that thrilled me so.  

 5  -6   -7   7
I'd like to know

-5  -6  -7   7   
Why did you go?  

 6   -6  5 6  6 -6   6 5   8   7
What did I do to be alone and blue.

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound